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Chapter 2

Chapter 2 – The impermissibility of taking anything of the sciences of religion from anyone other than the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله and the Imams عليه السلام, even it is if by an intermediary or intermediaries who are trusted, and obligatoriness of returning to them in all of the rules (al-ahkam)

1 – Muhammad b. Ya`qub from `Ali b. Ibrahim from Muhammad b. `Isa from Yunus from Jamil from Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام. He said: I heard him saying: Mankind becomes three types: an `alim (one who is learned, who knows), a learner (muta`allim), and scum. So we are the `ulama and our Shi`a are the learners, and the rest of mankind are scum.

2 – And from Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. `Isa from Muhammad b. Khalid from Abu ‘l-Bakhtari from Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام. He said: The `ulama are the inheritors of the prophets, and that is that the prophets do not bequeath a dirham or a dinar, and they only bequeath ahadith from their ahadith. So whoever takes something from it has taken an abundant wealth. So look to this your knowledge, from whom you take it. For in us, the People of the House, there are just ones in every successor (or, descendent), banishing the distortion of the exaggerators from him, the plagiarism of the falsifiers, and the explanation of the ignorant.